This is a mouthwatering, fabulous, one-step frosting recipe you can use to top cupcakes, cakes, or any other frost-able dessert. Warning: this luscious icing is so ricch and delicious, you may want to eat it with a spoon! Try this Vanilla Buttercream Frosting for your next sweet treat.

Ingredients:

2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature

6 – 8 cups confectioners sugar

¼ – ½ milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation:

Step 1: Beat butter in the bowl of an electric mixer until creamy. Turn mixer to low and gradually add in sugar, milk and vanilla. Beat on high until the frosting is smooth, creamy and reaches your desired consistency.

Christina Stanley-Salerno is a recipe developer, food stylist, photographer and blogger at TakeBackYourTable.com. She has an intense passion for the family meal and as a work-at-home mother of two growing boys, knows first-hand the challenges of trying to get a meal on the table. Before going freelance, she was on-staff at Every Day with Rachael Ray where she had the pleasure of working alongside some of the best in the food business. She is now a full-time work at home mom, writing recipes for everyone from Momtastic to Parents.com. Creating simple, quick and healthy meals is her specialty and her trick to keeping the family meal a reality, even on busy weeknights.